Thomas R. Pickart

Thomas Robert Pickart (3 July 1826-13 November 1885) was a Colonel of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Robert Pickart was born in Athens, Ohio, United States on 3 July 1826 to a Yankee family. Pickart lived as a farmer before the American Civil War broke out, upon which he was elected colonel of a regiment of US Army volunteers from the state of Ohio. Pickart led his regiment in the Army of the Cumberland during the Western campaigns of the war, which included the campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee; his regiment distinguished itself at the 1864 Battle of Nashville. After the war's end, Pickart returned to his simple life, and he died in 1885.